The Library’s Collection

The Elting Memorial Library provides access to a variety of materials including fiction and nonfiction books, reference books, best sellers, audio books, large print books, ebooks, and DVDs, videos, and CDs. We also have a large collection of newspapers, periodicals, and magazines, as well as various online databases.. Our Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection offers access to the best local history collection in the Hudson Valley. Computers with internet access are available for public use. Through our connection with the Mid-Hudson Library System, we also provide access to an unlimited amount of information on a variety of topics.

Catalog
You can search library materials in our library or throughout the Mid-Hudson Library System online. If you are a cardholder within the Mid-Hudson Library System, you can log onto your personal account using the fourteen digit code on the back of your library card. From there you can renew books, check out new ones, put items on hold, and request notification when the library system acquires an item you may be interested in checking out. You can also change personal information as required. Click Here to go to Mid-Hudson Library System.

Elting Books on Wheels
Are you, or someone you know, homebound but eager to obtain library books? Elting Library will now come to you! You may sign up to have your pre-ordered materials delivered to your home. Your returns will be picked up at the same time. This service is available for disabled cardholders who are physically unable to come to the library. To register for this program, an individual must have a valid Elting Library card and a clear record (no fines, no unreturned material). Call the library (255-5030) to request a registration form.

National Geographic (back issues kept in reference)
Natural History – 3 years
Newsweek – 1 year
New York – 1 year
The New Yorker – 1 year
People – 1 year
Popular Mechanics – 2 years
Popular Photography – 2 years
Popular Scicence – 2 years
Premier – 1 year
Prevention – 1 year
Resources – 2 years
Rolling Stone – 1 year
Rotarian – 1 year
Scientific American – 3 years
Seventeen – 1 year
Shonan Jump – 1 year
Sierra – 2 years
Smithsonian – 2 years
Southern Living – 1 year
Sports Illustrated – 1 year
Taste of Home – 1 year
Time – 1 year
Times Style Magazine – 1 year
Time Out NY – 6 months
Utne Reader – 1 year
Vanity Fair – 1 year
Vogue (mens) – 1 year
Volunteer Firefighter – 1 year
Wired – 1 year
The Writer – 1 year
Writer’s Digest – 2 years

The back issues of these, with the exception of Consumer Reports, may be taken out for three weeks. Consumer Reports does not circulate but may be viewed at the library by asking at the front desk. Older issues of various magazines might be found in the FREE box in the library.

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Elting Memorial Library
93 Main Street
New Paltz, New York
(845) 255 - 5030Email the Library